“I Sell Peace for a Living. Some Days I Can’t Find It for Myself.” I thought I had found freedom. I walked away from corporate life — left the security, the salary, the predictable ladder.My marriage ended.Most of the money I’d made over a lifetime was gone.Some through bad choices, some through risks that didn’t
Want to Reverse Your Age by 20 Years? Forget Fitness — Fix Your Spine. Everyone’s chasing anti-ageing.Creams, supplements, gym memberships, keto, intermittent fasting, ice baths, vegan, gluten-free, cold-pressed juices… you name it. But if you really want to rewind the clock, here’s the truth no one puts on Instagram:It starts with your spine. Spinal 101
Yes, you read that right.I’m asking you to be undisciplined. For most of my life, I believed discipline was the key to every change I wanted to make.Twenty times I tried to lose weight.Thirty times I tried to quit smoking.Hundreds of promises to myself that this time I’d stick to it. None of them lasted.
Looking for the perfect pre-TTC warm-up or post-TTC wind-down? Discover why yoga students choose Aavya in Upper Tapovan—every single month. The rhythm never changes. As one month ends and another begins, clusters of tired but smiling TTC students shuffle up the hill, mats slung over shoulders, still humming the day’s chants. Their teacher-training courses at
A few days ago, I wrote a blog titled “Gambling Since Age 9.” It was raw.It was personal.And it wasn’t what most people expect from the founder of a wellness retreat. I knew that when I hit publish.And yet, I wasn’t prepared for how much it would stir — in others, and in me. People
I started gambling at the ripe old age of nine. It began with three-card poker with childhood friends. A few coins on the line. The thrill of winning — or losing — didn’t matter much. What mattered was the rush. That strange, heady cocktail of hope and fear. Adrenaline in the veins. And that feeling
I didn’t need to understand the magic of Rishikesh. I just needed to feel it. I’d been in Rishikesh for about a year. The mornings had started to slow me down, the forest trails had begun to feel like old friends, and the Gangaji—well, she had a way of showing up whether or not you
What does it mean to truly have space? At Aavya, space isn’t just square footage. It’s a feeling. A rhythm.It’s the comfort of knowing you can do a little—or a lot.Be around people—or be with yourself.Work in silence—or dance under the stars. It’s not luxury in the conventional sense.But it’s comfort—real, earthy, grounding comfort.From the
Or why we created something called “Battle & Bond.” Who even does this? In a town overflowing with yoga retreats, trauma releases, cacao circles, breathwork breakthroughs, tantra this and somatic that — someone decided to throw a family dance battle in the middle of the jungle? Yes. That someone is us. It began, as the
Let’s be honest: pain isn’t fixed with a single pill and a two-line diagnosis. [Blog 6: Healing Isn’t Just Relief – Why We’re Doing the Pain Retreat] Let’s be honest: pain isn’t fixed with a single pill and a two-line diagnosis. And yet, most of us have been trained to treat it that way. The
